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Former Eurovision champs Bucks Fizz have said they think Britain can’t win Eurovision because of the decision to leave the European Union.

Bucks Fizz won the competition in 1981, but original members Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston and Mike Nolan have said there’s no glory in store for this year’s entry SuRie.

‘”I reckon that Brexit is going to stop us from having any chance of winning Eurovision. I think our song is great but I think that people don’t like us. It doesn’t help that we’re an island and we’ve got no neighbours,’ Cheryl Baker told Reuters.

‘I don’t think we can win it over,’ Jay Aston added. ‘We’ve got some of the biggest artists in the world of all time and yet in Eurovision we’re a joke.’

‘Even if Ed Sheeran was in, I don’t think we would win,’ Cheryl added.

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There’s only been one other winner since Bucks Fizz, Katrina And The Waves took the crown in 1997.

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The Eurovision Song Contest is recognised by Guinness World Records as the longest-running annual TV music competition. It began in 1956 with just seven countries. Ireland has won most often – seven times in all – following by Sweden.

Bucks Fizz won in 1981 (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

Mike Nolan said he thinks the winner will be one to come out of nowhere.

‘I think the song that’s going to win you’ll just think ‘what the hell is this doing in the contest?’, he said, adding: ‘You watch it and you think what a load of rubbish, and it wins – how the hell did it win?’

The final of the Eurovision Song Contest will air on Saturday 12 May.

The final of the 63rd edition of Eurovision will be broadcast from Lisbon on Saturday (May 12) evening.